Poor Bitos
or the dinner of heads
sheds light on a very dark period in our history.
Jean Anouilh's play, staged in 1956 at the Théâtre Montparnasse, caused a shock, or rather an electroshock.
Michel Bouquet played the role of the sad “hero”.
At his side, a beautiful table: Pierre Mondy, Bruno Cremer, Nicole Anouilh (under the pseudonym Charlotte Chardon)… In
Mémoire d'acteur
, Bouquet remembers the uproar that the general caused:
“It was October 11 .
Some went so far as to call the piece “garbage” or “spit”;
most of them reproached Anouilh for sullying the honor and memory of France, for putting right and left in the same bag of gall and contempt, for saving neither poor nor rich: all infamous, lamentable, the French that he staged... But if this scathing comedy made the audience react violently, it did not fail to bring them in large numbers: the play was a triumph.
The reviews were murderous, oh yes!…
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